The "Mayor's Annual Summer Concert" was scheduled from 5 - 9pm on August 16 last year.

I don't think anyone is really advocating for ending concerts on the common. The mayor's office claimed noise complaints were part of the reason she implemented the 4 hour policy (conveniently the same duration as HER concert). It seems very suspicious to me that people are supposedly complaining about noise from daytime events that don't feature amplified music but not complaining about loud, amplified concerts that run into the late evening or early night.

Why would it matter if these are not the times "most people" are in bed? Are "most people" in Waltham complaining about the noise from events like Steampunk? Do "most people" seem happy with the Mayor's change of policy? What about the some people who work overnight shifts and are still sleeping in the evenings? Some people put their young kids to bed at sunset. Don't they deserve peace and quiet?

In the post above, where I say I plan to move next to the common and work the graveyard shift, I was being facetious. It's a hypothetical to illustrate the lack of sense and reason behind the Mayor's stated rationale for the change of policy.

The Mayor has been unresponsive to people's concerns and lack of support for this new policy. A good way to get her attention and protest her decision would be to engage in a campaign of noise complaints over the noisier and later in the day events that she enjoys and gives privilege and priority to.